Policy in Focus: Ending Homelessness

Policy in Focus: Ending Homelessness presents key media reports, blog posts and expert opinions on current policy issues. Providing insight into the current state of homelessness, and presenting evidence based solutions, the collection provides in depth analysis and key findings by Monash University's expert researchers.

...Homelessness is not an unsolvable welfare problem for which the homeless are to be stigmatised and blamed – it's a human rights breach for which our governments are responsible and, we now know, they can resolve and must resolve...

The Hon Kevin Bell AM QC and Steven Roberts | Lens

Read The COVID-19 pandemic opens the door to solving the homelessness problem

...Nursing homes are no place for young people who want to be independent or live with their family or peers, but who lack affordable and accessible housing options and coordinated support to do so. Aged care is distressing for these people and their families...

Libby Callaway and Sue Sloan | The Conversation

Read ‘It felt like a prison’ – too many young Australians are still stuck in nursing homes

...The Small Homes Service was indeed a ‘service’ - a popular vehicle through which good design could be democratised, with homebuyers of modest means given the chance to own a well-designed home...

The ‘service’ ethos is striking given our contemporary situation, with surging populations, and low affordability, even amid a 21st century property boom, where housing is often considered less of a public service and more of a private asset...

Naomi Stead | Lens

Read Robin Boyd houses: Small homes, big impact

...the hardline response to recent concerns relating to homeless people in the Melbourne CBD fails to recognise the long-established link between family violence victimisation and homelessness....

Kate Fitz-Gibbon, JaneMaree Maher, Jude McCulloch and Sandra Walklate | The Conversation

Read Victoria leads the way on family violence, but Canberra needs to lift its game